After an opening salvo of back-and-forth arguments from President Trump's attorneys and Democrats' impeachment managers on Monday, Senate impeachment trial proceedings are set to begin at 1 p.m. The last-minute show of force underscored the fluid nature of the Senate trial, which is also set to feature full-throated arguments against impeachment from constitutional scholar Alan Dershowitz and Bill Clinton independent counsel Ken Starr. Romney was among a small number of Republican senators who said they wanted to consider witness testimony and documents that weren't part of the House impeachment investigation. Even if it did, the White House team has argued it would be an "unconstitutional conviction'' because the articles of impeachment were too broad. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPAdministration officials have argued that similar imprecision applied to the perjury case in Clinton's impeachment trial.

Source: Fox News January 21, 2020 02:02 UTC